Utilizing Medical Student Feedback to Improve Teaching Cases in Pre-clerkship Curricula.

Feedback is an essential part of continuous quality improvement of cases used in medical curricula. This report describes results of qualitative analysis of feedback to elucidate what worked well and what needed improvement from the lens of our pre-clerkship medical students. Complexity, realism, and use of media were themes identified as strengths.

Screening and Intervention to Prevent Violence Against Health Professionals from Hospitalized Patients: A Pilot Study.

Background: Health care providers, particularly nursing staff, are at risk of physical or emotional abuse from patients. This abuse has been associated with increased use of physical and pharmacological restraints on patients, poor patient outcomes, high staff turnover, and reduced job satisfaction.

Methods: In this study, a multidisciplinary team at Tufts Medical Center implemented the Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC), a screening tool administered by nurses to identify patients displaying agitated behavior.

Development and Implementation of an Escalation Protocol for Internal Medicine Trainees.

Background: Overnight, physicians in training receive less direct supervision. Decreased direct supervision requires trainees to appropriately assess patients at risk of clinical deterioration and escalate to supervising physicians. Failure of trainees to escalate contributes to adverse patient safety events.

Designing and implementing equity-based pandemic preparedness and response learning modules: lessons from a multi-country short-course.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionate impacts across race, social class, and geography. Insufficient attention has been paid to addressing the massive inequities worsened by COVID-19. In July 2020, Partners In Health (PIH) and the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) delivered a four-module short course, 'An Equity Approach to Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Emerging Insights from COVID-19 Global Response Leaders.

Redesigning patient flow in orthopedics and radiology clinics via a three-phase 'Kaizen' improvement approach and interrupted time series analysis.

Introduction: The orthopedics clinic at an academic medical center has low patient satisfaction rates for patients that require an X-ray and have difficulty ambulating. The project aimed to reduce the 'non-value-added' time during appointments by using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies and enhance patient experience.

Methods: An analysis of the current state was conducted using Gemba walks, interviews with subject matter experts and an interrupted time study to assess baseline data.